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Want to spend a weekend volunteering in Calais? We are pleased to announce our convoy dates for the first half of 2019: January 18 – 20 March 1 – 3 April 26 – 28 June 14 – 16 The convoys leave Cambridge on Friday evenings in car shares. We stay […]

Thank you to everyone who came to our annual get together and AGM last Thursday: It was a lovely evening among friends old and new, all united in showing our solidarity with and support to refugees in Europe. Thank you too to the volunteers who helped on the night, and […]

CamCRAG today publishes its annual report, including accounts for the period 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018. You can download the report as a pdf from camcrag.org.uk/docs/annualreport2018.pdf Paper copies will be available at this evening’s AGM and annual get together at St Barnabas Church on Mill Road – doors […]

CamCRAG has contributed £1,500 towards the #LOVE4LESVOS campaign, which aims to raise £25,000 (as well as aid in the form of donations) for refugees trapped in the camps on the Greek island. The campaign has been extended until the end of September and is now only a few hundred pounds […]

CamCRAG’s convoy to Calais in September was reduced to three volunteers after one of just two cars going broke down. However the aid that they brought, and the hours they put in over the weekend, were very much appreciated by Refugee Community Kitchen and the other groups working in the […]

Catharine Walston gives a rundown of the July Convoy The 150 mile journey from Cambridge to Calais is normally an easy, stress-free trip and, with the current border controls, wonders of the Eurotunnel and smooth traffic conditions on the M25, should take about 4½  hours. However, July’s convoy saw new […]

We would like to extend a massive thank you to everyone at Holy Trinity Church who helped to organise and run yesterday’s donations drop off day in Haddenham, and to everyone who gave so generously. Following the recent fire at the Dunkirk Womens Centre it’s inspiring to see normal people […]

CamCRAG would like to extend a massive thank you to newlyweds Norm and Becky, who donated the 30 tents and 50 sleeping bags provided for their wedding guests earlier this summer. These will be going to Calais on our next weekend convoy in September – to join us sign up […]

Around 14,000 people will walk pass our SOS Tent at the Cambridge Folk Festival this weekend. If you are one of them, take a pic and give us a shout on social media #SOSTents The SOS Tents project aims to keep the Help Refugees warehouse in Calais stocked with sufficient […]

CamCRAG is pleased to announce that it is to continue to fund Refugee Community Kitchen £1000 per month until at least September of this year. The charity has a long standing association with the community-run kitchen, which operates out of Help Refugees’ warehouse in Calais. Many volunteers on our weekend […]